Beechmohr, 1 Avenue Road, Dalkeith

Beechmohr, located at 1 Avenue Road, Dalkeith, is a pair of houses dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It comprises two houses, designed as a mirrored pair. The front (west) elevation is constructed from cream-coloured, squared and snecked bull-faced ashlar, while the rear is of rubble. Red sandstone dressings are used throughout, with stop-chamfered reveals. A band course runs between the floors on the east elevation, and a moulded eaves course with eaves guttering is present in the centre bays, complemented by half-piended roofs.

The east elevation, facing Eskbank Road, features steeply pitched crowstepped gables projecting from the outer bays, linked by a colonnaded verandah at ground floor level in the central bays. Distyle in antis square columned porches lead to panelled doors with plate glass fanlights, each accompanied by a flanking window. A corniced screen wall separates the two properties; the front door contains an etched tripartite window. A decorative cast-iron balustrade sits above, topped with a ball-finialled ashlar die at the centre. A bipartite window is present in the centre bays at the first floor. Full-height, four-light canted windows are positioned in the outer bays, each with a half-piended roof, and blank moulded panels are incorporated into the gableheads.

The north elevation, which faces Avenue Road for No. 1, exhibits an irregularly arranged pattern of windows. Ground floor windows are positioned centrally and to the right, with bipartite and other windows at the first floor. Similarly, the south elevation, facing Avenue Road for No. 46, displays an irregular fenestration arrangement with ground and first floor windows.

The west elevation has two windows in the centre, flanked by smaller windows at the first floor. The ground floor is also fenestrated. The windows are tall sash and case, with small four-pane upper sashes (plate glass in the canted windows on the right at ground floor); much of the glass is yellow-tinted, with plate glass lower sashes. The building features a crowstepped mutual skew. Corniced stacks are present, including a smaller central stack and taller, shouldered wallhead stacks to the north and south, and to the west, with piended roofs over the outer bays. The roof is covered in grey-green slates, and original rainwater goods remain.

Boundary walls constructed of semicircular coped rubble are retained by red sandstone, chamfered piers. Two pyramidal-capped piers mark the boundary on Eskbank Road for No. 46, while two truncated pyramidal-capped piers define the boundary on Avenue Road for No. 1.